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Sugar Cookies: Make Your Family Happy With These Treats
By Mike Shaw on December 18, 2009 |
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Sugar cookies have been in family cookie jars for years and years. They are simple in taste and they are easy to make as well. You can make sugar cookies in several different ways. Sugar cookies can be rolled into balls and flattened on the cookie sheet. They can have sprinkles of colored sugar. They can be spread with colored frosting and decorated with other things like chocolate chips. It does not matter how you present them to your family and friends as they will love them any way you make them.
The history of the sugar cookie is about as simple as the cookie itself. The recipe is mostly attributed to Dutch immigrants to America called the Pennsylvania Dutch made this cookie and the recipe when from there all over the United States. Everyone began to make this luscious cookie. In 2001 the State of Pennsylvania adopted it as the state cookie.
There were sugar cookies before the Dutch were making them. Bakers in the seventh century would test the temperature of their ovens by making small cakes made of sugar that would not matter if they burned or not. If they did not burn the oven was at the right temperature. It was not right to throw this cake away so they sold them as small sugar cakes. In France they were referred to as gimblettes and the Italian's sold cimbellines.
On variety of sugar cookie is fluffy and light and they become quite tall while in the oven baking. There is a bit of crunch to the edge but the middles are soft and sweet. Another variety is made where the cookie is a little harder and crisp. Both are wonderfully sweet and tasty.
In many recipes you roll the dough flat and use cookie cutters to cut it into different shapes. These type are favorites for many different holidays. They can be made into hearts on St. Valentines Day. They can be cut out in bunny or egg shape for Easter. Pumpkins can be cut out for Halloween. Cut out turkey cookies to celebrate Thanksgiving. The most popular are made a Christmas in various shapes including Christmas trees and Santa.
The recipe below is a very soft cookie that uses confectioners' sugar and not the granulated variety of sugar. These cookies are light and fluffy so do not use cookie cutters to try and cut them. They will just fall apart if you try.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a mixing bowl cream one half pound softened butter then add one cup confectioners' sugar gradually. Add one egg, one teaspoon vanilla and mix well. In another bowl combine two cups flour and one half teaspoon baking soda. Mix well and start adding gradually to the mixture containing the egg. Once it has all been incorporated scoop out teaspoonful and shape into a one inch ball. Place two inches apart on a greased cookie sheet. Take a fork and press each ball flat. Bake for about six minutes and remove from oven and let sit for five minutes. Remove cookies to a cooling rack. You can sprinkle each cookie with a little bit of granulated sugar before putting them into the oven if you would like. This makes about 5 dozen cookies.
The next recipe is a sugar cookie that is rolled flat and cut with cookie cutters. Using a large bowl take 1 and one half cups flour and sift it with two teaspoons of baking powder and 1 half teaspoon salt and place aside for later. In a bowl for the electric mixer place one cup butter and gradually add 1 and one half cups of granulated sugar. Beat until the mixture gets light and fluffy. In a small bowl beat 2 eggs. Add to the mixer with 1 tablespoon of milk and one teaspoon of vanilla. Slowly add 1 and a half additional flour until incorporated. The dough should not be stiff, but smooth so if it starts to stiffen stop adding the flour. Roll the entire bowl of dough into a ball and place it in wax paper to be placed in the refrigerator for a whole hour. Take out of the refrigerator and roll to about one fourth of an inch thick and use cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Sprinkle them with sugar or leave them alone to be decorated with colored icing after cooking. Put the shapes on non stick sprayed cookie sheets and bake in a 400 degree F oven for about 10 minutes or until the edges become lightly brown. Leave them on the cookie sheets for about 2 minutes then remove to a cooling rack.
Sugar cookies are good any time of the year, not just during the holiday. Whip up a batch for your family and watch as they gobble them up as fast as you can make them. |
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